Hughes still leads Metro Council presidency race as votes trickle in

With a few ballots still trickling in, Tom Hughes leads Bob Stacey by 1,106 votes in the race for Metro Council president. Nearly 400,000 votes were cast in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and the race has been tight from the start. Hughes, a former two-term Hillsboro mayor, has maintained a slight lead since election night over Stacey, a former director of 1000 Friends of Oregon.

Some mail-in ballots remain to be counted, however, including ones that lacked signatures or the signature did not match registration records. Voters whose ballots were challenged for signature problems have until Friday to respond and set the record straight.